OGC Nice has started its third qualifying round of the Champions League before all its Ligue 1 counterparts. The OGC Nice season has been long enough to see its leaders deserve a break. Since ten days and its maintenance acquired in pain against Saint-Étienne (0-0, 4-1), the Gym has put itself in a stop position. To breathe after a grueling year. And also by force of circumstances. How to advance the dossier of the coach and confirm the arrival of Geoffrey Moncada at the sports direction without knowing who of Ineos or a potential buyer will be the owner of the club in a few weeks? But things should advance significantly this week, on the resumption of OGCN, and therefore on the rest. The latest signals sent on the Côte d'Azur seem to indicate the imminence of a turning point. After seven years under Ineos' control, OGC Nice could well change hands with the arrival of a new owner. Whether it is a minority shareholder in the first instance, with a progressive increase in its participation in the capital, or immediately major, it is a programmed disengagement of the petrochemical group that would be profiled. The identity of this shareholder has not yet filtered, but the file that would hold the string would no longer be that of the American investment fund mentioned several weeks ago. It is another investment fund, also Anglo-Saxon, that would be closer to winning the bid, and it is likely that Ineos has managed to raise the stakes a bit. While the date of June 15 was initially mentioned internally to advance on the main files, it seems that the imminence of an agreement would allow the Nîçoise leaders to get back to work faster than planned on next season. Jean-Pierre Rivère having completed his stint as president, Maurice Cohen is now alone at the helm of the operational. The deputy president has not yet had a clear visibility, but Jean-Claude Blanc, in charge of the link between the club and Ineos, would have submitted the idea to the future buyer to keep, at least in the first instance, the 71-year-old man, who has for him to know perfectly the context of Nice and to be an incarnation. Similarly, Blanc would advocate for the choice of Maralpin Geoffrey Moncada to head the sports direction to be confirmed whatever the evolution of the ownership. The question of the successor to Claude Puel also arises. Unless a turnaround situation, the coach returned to the bedside of the Eagles at the end of December will not pursue his mission. Among the names circulating to take his place, that of Alexandre Dujeux (50 years old) returns in vain. After three and a half years on the bench of SCO, the technician has released his contract last week, but the Gym is not the only one interested in his profile (Lens, Lorient). Another option leads to Wilfried Nancy (49 years old). Relatively unknown in the Hexagon, the Frenchman remains on a fleeting experience at Celtic Glasgow, where he has only been in office for a month, in December last. But he enjoys a big reputation overseas, where the new owners could come from: in MLS, Nancy was elected coach of the year in 2024 when he led Columbus to second place in the regular season and to the final of the Conca Champions Cup